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NovellTue, 31 Mar 2015 17:01:53 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1Novell’s take on the Dell preload of Ubuntuhttps://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/novells-take-on-the-dell-preload-of-ubuntu/
https://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/novells-take-on-the-dell-preload-of-ubuntu/#commentsWed, 02 May 2007 17:46:27 +0000/communities/coolsolutions/?p=19531Yesterday, Dell said that it will start preloading Ubuntu Linux onto three Dell PCs targeted at the technical consumer market. As proponents of open source and Linux, Novell is happy to see Linux being preloaded onto any desktop machine. This announcement is just one more proof point in the continued growth of Linux. We view …

]]>https://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/novells-take-on-the-dell-preload-of-ubuntu/feed/10The real tune on real time Linuxhttps://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/the-real-tune-on-real-time-linux/
https://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/the-real-tune-on-real-time-linux/#commentsFri, 27 Apr 2007 18:39:12 +0000/communities/coolsolutions/?p=19530Generally, I’m a fan of taking the high road. I’d much rather talk about what we do than talk about what the competition is doing. But sometimes you can’t let things slide… Red Hat has recently been out talking about preparing a real time Linux offering later this year. In the course of this, they’ve …

]]>https://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/the-real-tune-on-real-time-linux/feed/5And the winner is…https://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/and-the-winner-is/
https://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/and-the-winner-is/#commentsThu, 26 Apr 2007 17:23:04 +0000/communities/coolsolutions/?p=19527Congrats to the winners of the recently concluded “Race to Linux 2.0″ context. Hosted by DevX and jointly sponsored by Novell, Mainsoft and IBM, the “Race to Linux 2.0″ challenged developers to see how quickly they could port an application from Windows to Linux. The Novell-sponsored Mono project was one of the key tools developers …

]]>https://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/and-the-winner-is/feed/0Software management with openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprisehttps://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/software-management-with-opensuse-and-suse-linux-enterprise/
https://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/software-management-with-opensuse-and-suse-linux-enterprise/#commentsThu, 26 Apr 2007 15:51:41 +0000/communities/coolsolutions/?p=19526Last week, openSUSE maintainers sent a note to the openSUSE mailing list telling folks that openSUSE will now be focusing on native software management using YaST and “zypp”, the package management library. As a result, openSUSE 10.3 will not include the ZENworks Management Daemon (zmd). Here’s what that means: First, and most important, patch, update …

]]>https://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/software-management-with-opensuse-and-suse-linux-enterprise/feed/5Getting green with Linuxhttps://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/getting-green-with-linux/
https://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/getting-green-with-linux/#commentsFri, 20 Apr 2007 20:50:07 +0000/communities/coolsolutions/?p=19524Sunday is Earth Day, and there’s certainly been a lot of media focus on the environment in recent months. The issue of how IT impacts the environment has been a part of this debate. Novell recently announced it had joined the Green Grid, a consortium of IT companies focused on lowering power consumption in data …

]]>https://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/getting-green-with-linux/feed/0ClearType issue and openSUSEhttps://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/cleartype-issue-and-opensuse/
https://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/cleartype-issue-and-opensuse/#commentsTue, 10 Apr 2007 19:35:27 +0000/communities/coolsolutions/?p=19518There’s a slashdot posting up about Novell disabling a font type, ClearType, from the the openSUSE distribution in connection with possible Microsoft patent concerns. This seems to have created some confusion, in that a number of observers are wondering why, given Novell’s patent agreement with Microsoft, this technology wouldn’t be allowed in openSUSE. We’ve been …

]]>https://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/cleartype-issue-and-opensuse/feed/3New LSB and testing tools from the Linux Foundationhttps://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/new-lsb-and-testing-tools-from-the-linux-foundation/
https://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/new-lsb-and-testing-tools-from-the-linux-foundation/#commentsMon, 09 Apr 2007 16:47:15 +0000/communities/coolsolutions/?p=19517The Linux Foundation put out a press release today announcing the latest update to the Linux Standards Base (LSB) and the creation of new testing tools to ensure compatibility. The LSB, now version 3.1, is a key initiative to promote interoperability in the Linux realm by making applications run to a common specification across various …

]]>https://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/new-lsb-and-testing-tools-from-the-linux-foundation/feed/0Responding to comments on the GPL3 issuehttps://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/responding-to-comments-on-the-gpl3-issue/
https://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/responding-to-comments-on-the-gpl3-issue/#commentsWed, 04 Apr 2007 22:55:49 +0000/communities/coolsolutions/?p=19515A bunch of folks have commented on the recent posting on the GPL3 issue. Thanks for all these comments, pro and con. We know this issue is controversial, and we appreciate the open debate. I’d like to make a few points, based on the comments, and figured I’d do a new post, rather than a …

]]>https://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/responding-to-comments-on-the-gpl3-issue/feed/8Happy Birthday ODF Alliancehttps://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/happy-birthday-odf-alliance/
https://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/happy-birthday-odf-alliance/#commentsThu, 29 Mar 2007 17:49:48 +0000/communities/coolsolutions/?p=19511It’s a few days late, but happy first birthday to the ODF Alliance. The Alliance was formed last March (Novell is a founding member) with the goal of encouraging the adoption of the ODF document format by governments and public sector organizations worldwide. In a press release put out on Tuesday, the Alliance highlighted some …

]]>https://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/happy-birthday-odf-alliance/feed/1Novell position on GPL3 drafthttps://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/novell-position-on-gpl3-draft/
https://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/novell-position-on-gpl3-draft/#commentsWed, 28 Mar 2007 15:21:36 +0000/communities/coolsolutions/?p=19510The Free Software Foundation has published today a third draft of the GPL3 license. The FSF had indicated leading up to this draft that it would be addressing some concerns it had with the Novell-Microsoft agreements in the draft. Here’s Novell’s position on the new draft: We will continue to distribute Linux. Nothing in this …